Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
If you hadn’t noticed, there is a new Artist in Residence in Gallery 31 Art Studio. Her name is Boz Schurr. What is she doing you ask? Well, for now I’ll let the work speak for itself.
With the help from Academy visitors, Boz will be on site, painting on weekends through December [...]
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The Art Studio is again dark (for just one weekend) as Allison Uttley has packed up her work and moved back to the University. Â As hoped, Uttley’s time here has garnered her some vision and clarity on future work. Â Keep an eye on this artist, she’s on the cusp of big things. Â
She left the [...]
In school, I had a professor use the term “Art Gap” a lot during critiques. Not sure if the term was of his own personal art vernacular (Google turned up nothing) as it was the last I ever heard anyone use it in a sentence. Art gap refers (so this professor proclaimed) to the distance [...]
Yesterday, I popped in to see what Allison was up to. There were more balloons, the shapes and scale of them have gotten more diverse. A few touch both floor and ceiling simultaneously, which begins to toy with your sense of proportion. One balloon caught my eye.
“Hey, it’s Penelope!” I said.
“Who’s Penelope?” asked Allison.
“You know [...]
There’s something bittersweet about balloons—they serve as fluffy milestones, marking times of achievement and worth, yet they also remind you that those moments are just that, and can unexpectedly pop, deflate or just float away. We live for moments, and in art it is often the moment of completion that measures its worth. [...]